James Allemby UNR

After 112 weeks of "Copy & Pastes", you are actually going to have to type something different next tournament 

-- Edited by Bob in Spain on Saturday 6th of December 2014 02:20:18 PM

I had a bad feeling about Marzi's match when I saw Nagal's junior ranking - not a nice QR1 opponent when you've been struggling a bit. The other GB seeds are safely through to the FQR and James went very close to causing an upset:

QR1: (q4) James Marsalek WR 945 lost to Sumit Nagal (IND) UNR (CH 1668 in Jan; 17yo world junior no. 43) by 7-6(5) 6-3
QR1: James Allemby UNR lost to (q5) Jelle Sels (NED) WR 955 (CH 952 last month) by 6-3 4-6 7-5
QR1: David Parry UNR lost to (q9) Sander Arends (NED) WR 1126 (CH 1103 last month) by 2 & 5
QR1: (q13) Adam Skalsky WR 1312 beat (wc) Abdulla al Mohamoud (QAT) UNR (18yo) by 0 & 0
QR1: (q10) Scott Clayton WR 1127 beat Martim Vilela (POR) UNR (16yo) by 2 & 1

FQR: (q13) Adam Skalsky WR 1312 v (q7) Giorgio Portaluri (ITA) WR 1002 (CH 715 in 2011)
FQR: (q10) Scott Clayton WR 1127 v (q8) Adam Chadaj (POL) WR 1108 (CH 202 in 2005) *

* H2H 0-1 - Chadaj came from a bagel down to beat Scott in 3 in Bath last month

Adam has the first set 6-4 against his higher ranked opponent

Both Brits in the FQR ended up in the main draw All rankings updated too:

L32: (4) Dan Smethurst WR 290 v Aleksandre Metreveli (GEO) WR 540 (= CH)
L32: (LL) Adam Skalsky WR 1314 v Dimitar Kuzmanov (BUL) WR 420 (CH 381 in Oct)
L32: Richard Gabb WR 577 v (Q) Pirmin Hänle (GER) WR 717 (CH 526 in 2009)
L32: Luke Bambridge WR 538 v (3) Saketh Myneni (IND) WR 262 (CH 241 in Oct)
L32: (Q) Scott Clayton WR 1123 v (5) Sam Barry (IRL) WR 323 (CH 286 in Sep)

* H2H 1-1 - Barry won 4 & 5 in Cyprus last year but Scott beat him 6-7(4) 7-6(3) 6-3 in Bath last month - Scott's career best ranking scalp

 

-- Edited by steven on Sunday 7th of December 2014 08:03:50 PM

No Dan Cox - sort of expected that judging by his tweets, but a bit odd to travel all that way for 1 week.

Dan safely through:

L32: (4) Dan Smethurst WR 290 beat Aleksandre Metreveli (GEO) WR 540 (= CH) by 0 & 3

Luke's original opponent, the no. 3 seed, got replaced by aptly-named lucky loser "Filin" but Luke is a set down 4-6 1-0*

L32: Luke Bambridge WR 538 v (LL) Pavel Filin (BLR) WR 1953 (CH 887 in 2013)

-- Edited by steven on Monday 8th of December 2014 01:58:48 PM

L32: Luke Bambridge WR 538 lost to (LL) Pavel Filin (BLR) WR 1953 (CH 887 in 2013) by 4 & 2

Ouch!